And from our friend across the big pond, a prescient word of warning …
As I write this, the dawn of a damp, chill 5th November is here. And tonight all over the UK there will be fireworks and piles of burning woods. And pets will have a miserable time, so will folk trying to sleep. Worse our strained Hospital services will have unnecessary injuries through carelessness with use of explosives. And folk who think they are politically sardonic and witty will be making jokes favourable about Guy Fawkes.
And those words somehow seem allegorical to the state of US politics and the forthcoming greatest challenge faced by the US populations, thus far.
Let’s dial back a smidge and talk about Fawkes. He was part of a group of fanatics who were willing to bring down an albeit flawed but nonetheless nascent democracy by a savage act of violence on its parliament and replace that with a theocratic government and quiescent king. Some folk…
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A scary post but spot on. If there’s not a blue tidal wave, it could become Gilead. No doubts Zelensky will be glued. May there be a blue tidal wave on the 8th for global democracy. ❤
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Yes, it is spot-on … and scary. We have been leading up to this point for about 30 years now, and this could be the “make it or break it” election. On the other hand, this might be the election that turns the tables back toward democratic principles. Time will tell.
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We must collectively focus on the latter! May God save America 🙂 x
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I think it will be the people of this nation who will need to either save the U.S. … or not. Time will tell. xx
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Much will depend on the willingness of Republican voters to realise how their party has become a factory of excess and antics. If the majority of Republican voters do go down the road of calling ‘foul’ should the vote not go their way, there will be more problems.
Vote and Hope for the return of Sense and Maturity.
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I agree. Although, I think if most dems vote, they far outnumber the evil. And sadly, I think which ever way it goes, the retrumplicans will contest, even just for showmanship.
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Sadly, there can be no respite until this contagion of Hysterical Aggressive Right-Wing cultism is purged from the body politics and driven back to the obscure fringes
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Absolutely!
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I’ve just been listening to one of the BBC correspondents in the USA running a feature on the Mid-Terms. He was with a Republican Candidate ‘out on the doorstep’ in ‘Penn’.
An interesting sub-text to a person who publicly (note that word) supported Trump; he made reference to accepting results and ‘moving on’, repeating that when 2020 was raised, he encountered Republican voters who did not like Trump, he encountered ones who were lukewarm (and a democrat who gave him the angry brush off and door slam).
Trump and MAGA have divided the USA to a frightening degree.
There maybe though, a very slim hope that bridges can be built again. In this role Democrats might have to be astute in how they interact with Republicans, to respect them while undermining the toxic group who use Trump and MAGA.
Slim hopes, slim hopes.
But better than the alternatives.
Still vote Democrat though and get folk to vote
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Everything you said.
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Strive you true patriots
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It gets harder by the day to speak civilly to those who keep claiming that “Trump was the greatest president ever” and that the 2020 election was “stolen”. It’s like … like we’re speaking two entirely different languages. I speak English and Spanish fluently, but I do not seem to be able to speak or understand maganese.
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There is a simple response to those who claim Trump was the greatest:
‘Better than Washington?….Andrew Jackson (aka ‘the low blow’)…Teddy Roosevelt?…..Dwight Eisenhower?…..Ronald Regan?. How so?’
And keep on pushing…
Watch ’em squirm 😼
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Hmmmm … you always have the best ideas! Thanks!
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There’s something pathetically desperate about folk who make that hysterical claim of Trump….
He matches up against three Republican Heroes?
As the old saying goes ‘Gimme a break’
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Yeah, gimme a break. My guess is that in the annals of history, he will go down as the worst U.S. President … he’s already close to the bottom of the list and when all the facts are known, he will sink even further.
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So low he’ll be placed underground.
At least Millard Filmore thought he was holding the nation together.
And Franklin Pierce was beset by so many personal tragedies it could be argued his judgement was often skewed.
While Buchan, it could be said was somewhat comparable to our Chamberlain…too many compromises and trusting the South.
Trump is just a disgrace.
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Right. Trump had no underlying altruistic cause, only his own best interests. And he was willing to destroy this nation, subject the people to a nightmare future, to ensure his own power/wealth. He may just go down in history as the worst excuse for a human being.
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I can think of worst ones, but that’s no excuse for the fellow.
He’s another argument for the use of Gulags.
……Although he must be bladder agitated at the results coming in in the Mid-Terms.
And this is where my own disturbing socialist view of operating politics comes in, on the Divide and Conquer prinicpal.
Democrats and liberals of strong will should now starting writing letters in teams of two, one to:
De Santis:
“Sir, I my opinion it is firm, direct folk of strong vision such as yourself who are needed. Quite frankly I thought Trump a sheer blow-hard who has made the GOP look ridiculous. You must stand against him.”
While the other to Trump:
“Sir, I am appalled at the way you have been treated after all your hard work and sacrifice. You must stand again to ensure that mere opportunists such as De Santis do not undo all your hard work with weak-willed compromise”
I know it’s a tough call, but this is war for the soul of the USA.
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Ha ha … yes, I can see the benefit in writing those two letters, rather like setting up the pieces on a chess board … but Roger … in all honesty, I could not say those words to either of them! I might break a thousand pencils trying to get those words onto paper!
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I can understand….
It’s hardcore twisted.
European School
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It’s an acquired skill, for sure!
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Yeah and would give some folk ulcers, no doubt.
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Well heck, then, I’ve got nothing to lose … I’ve had ulcers since I was 8!!! 🤣
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Comment left on Roger’s blog:
Good words, Sir R. It seems so obvious from the outside what it seems so many people cannot see from the inside. American Democracy could die on Tuesday, a death brought about by Republican voters. How ironic!
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In truth, it seems that it has been dying for about 30 years and we just didn’t realize it. Sigh.
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Never take Democracy for granted. The forces of Corrosion never rest.
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Obviously. Sigh.
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I am not a great 100% fan of Bertram Russell (I’m too left-wing for that)…however this is an interesting quote, when set against the rise of Trump and MAGA…..
“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.”
(Although in Trump’s case I would argue about the ‘pretending’ part)
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Hmmmm … that makes a degree of sense, but like you … in the case of Trump, Marge Greene, and Herschel Walker to name a few, I don’t think their stupidity is exaggerated in the least!
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The first two can be placed in one of the ‘Useful Idiots’ categories. The ones who by their vanity and hysteria make it possible for the ones behind the scenes to work their evil.
Some of the things I’ve read of Walker brings to mind a phrase one of my senior managers used to say to me on having received some impractical ‘injunction’ from on high
‘Defend us from the well-meaning twit,’
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Yes, they are puppets on the strings of their handlers. Not always obedient puppets, as I’m sure Walker’s handlers have gone through a few bottles of aspirin over the headaches he gives them when he goes ‘off script’! I’m not even sure Walker or Greene are ‘well-meaning’ twits … I think they are very self-serving and care not one whit for humanity.
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Greene is downright unpleasant. A ‘true believer’ in the Unholy Trinity- White Privilege. Irresponsible Libertarianism. Intolerance. Walker has the air of a wild card. Mouth and brain…there’s a wall between them methinks.
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Greene is a nasty ‘piece of work’, and Walker is the definition of ‘big, dumb jock’. Sigh. How they even got to 1st base in politics is beyond me. Their brain is not wired quite right, or in Walker’s case, it took too many hard hits on the football field!
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Seems so.
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Thank you, Ned!!!
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Your views sound like our propaganda news stations like China’s who only repeat what has been paid or forced through the stations.
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My views are my own and no, they are not propaganda and nobody pays me for them. I am a humanitarian with liberal views who is concerned about such things as the environment, bigotry in all its forms, wealth inequality, and more. Many of those things are on the line in this election, thereby making it possibly the most important election of my 71 years.
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No, based on 55 of my 71 years of reading Histories, watching and listening to news sources of all sources and above all learning the various tides, flows and follies of Humanity. It is a sad facet that Human is often doomed to repeat these follies.
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Thank you Jill.
Here’s to being wrong with my predictions.
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I still hold out a bit of hope that you and I are both wrong. Fingers crossed, my friend.
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I’ll be the first to cheer and I’ll write a post entitled:
‘What Was I Thinking About????’
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And I will be the first to reblog it!!!
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Won’t that be a glorious day! 😀 🎈🎉
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